Deaths in June 2007

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  June 2007

1

• Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate.
• Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide.
• Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia.
• Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife and Lord Lieutenant of Fife.
• Charles Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer.
• Charles Kinkead, 93, Jamaican photojournalist, stroke.
• Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch.
• Marly de Oliveira, 72, Brazilian poet, Prêmio Jabuti laureate, multiple organ failure.
• Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer.
• Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer.
• Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, toxic inhalation of freon.

  2

• Sandy Barr, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Charles Evans, 81, American businessman and film producer, complications from pneumonia.
• Marion Francis Forst, 96, American oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
• Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure.
• Kentarō Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer.
• Wolfgang Hilbig, 65, German author and poet.
• Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai.
• Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn and Chancellor of UC Berkeley.
• John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer.

  3

• Richard Attipoé, 50, Togolese politician, Minister of Youth and Sport, helicopter crash.
• Iván Darvas, 82, Hungarian actor.
• Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot.
• Earl Hogan, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana.
• Jim Kelsey, 54, American Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, automobile accident.
• Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack.
• Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease.
• Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, 28, Spanish songwriter and programmer, traffic collision.

  4

• Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player and coach, stroke.
• Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and Australian Labor Party national president.
• Lady Jeanne Campbell, 78, British journalist and aristocrat.
• Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition.
• Hallie Ford, 102, American timber entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• Bill France Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR, cancer.
• Wallace McIntosh, 87, British World War II air gunner.
• Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer.
• Freddie Scott, 74, American singer, heart attack.
• Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia.

  5

• Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes.
• Gert-Jan Dröge, 64, Dutch TV personality, lung cancer.
• Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author.

  6

• Lila Irene Clerides, 85, Indian-born Cypriot actress and socialite, First Lady.
• Tony DeSantis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer.
• Enrique Fuentes Quintana, 82, Spanish economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Larry Leon Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival.
• Dave Hancock, 68, English footballer.
• Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier.
• Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot.

  7

• Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland, heart failure.
• Michael Hamburger, 83, German-born British poet, translator, critic.
• Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot.

  8

• Aden Adde, 98, Somali politician, first President of Somalia.
• Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, 86, English diplomat.
• Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer.
• Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia.
• Kenny Olsson, 30, Swedish speedway rider, crash.
• Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer, apparent suicide.
• Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.

  9

• Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis.
• Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art.
• Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Eddie Crush, 90, English cricketer .
• Bill Ellis, 87, English cricketer.
• Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer.
• Rob Goode, 80, American football player for the Washington Redskins.
• Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack.
• Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness.
• Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Leonard E. H. Williams, 87, British World War II Spitfire pilot and businessman.

  10

• Augie Auer, 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack.
• George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga, 50, Australian singer.
• Jeff Erlanger, 36, American disability rights activist, asphyxiation.
• Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia.
• Jim Killingsworth, 83, American college basketball coach, complications from stroke.
• Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall.
• John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader and Yukon Government Leader, cancer.
• Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure.

  11

• Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee.
• Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Jonathan Henry, 36, British police officer.
• Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach.
• Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers.
• Mala Powers, 75, American film actress, leukemia.

  12

• Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati, US Representative from Ohio, Parkinson's disease.
• Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident.
• Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack.
• Don Herbert, 89, American TV host, bone cancer.
• Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer.
• Jim Norton, 68, American football player.
• Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family.
• Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man.
• Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project.

  13

• Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim.
• Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb.
• Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor.
• Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer.
• Claude Netter, 82, French Olympic fencer.
• Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentine footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup.
• John Stanton Ward, 89, British artist.

  14

• Ruth Graham, 87, American author.
• William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall.
• Jørgen Hare, 83, Danish Olympic shooter.
• Margaret Hunt Hill, 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
• Martin McKay, 70, Irish Olympic cyclist.
• Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot, heart failure.
• Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack.
• Alex Thomson, 78, British cinematographer.
• Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist.
• Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes.
• Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President, UN Secretary-General, World War II Wehrmacht officer, heart failure.

  15

• Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist, cancer.
• Bertin Borna, 76, Beninese politician, former finance minister.
• Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer.
• Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council middleweight boxing champion.
• Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet, accidental overdose.

  16

• Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee, brain tumor.
• Jack Doohan, 87, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease.
• Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader.
• Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma.

  17

• Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack.
• Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher.
• Cheng Shifa, 86, Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.
• Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
• Gianfranco Ferré, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage.
• Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer, cancer.
• Velimir Ilić, 81, Yugoslav Olympic athlete.
• Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer.
• José Abílio Osório Soares, 60, Indonesian last governor of East Timor.
• Fred C. Stinson, 84, Canadian politician.